botany

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The science or study of plants.

n. A book or scholarly work on this subject.

n. The plant life of a particular area: the botany of the Ohio River valley.

n. The characteristic features and biology of a particular kind of plant or plant group.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.

n. The plant life, or the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.

n. A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See plant.

These organizations, along with leading institutions in botany (the Missouri Garden and the Kew Gardens) and other key organizations (the Marine Biological Laboratory and Harvard Museum Libraries) have joined forces to create the Biodiversity Heritage Library (see my earlier post).

McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics; the field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career.

The notion that sex kept (married) women healthy, the sexual lexicon in botany and science (including theories of electricity), the erotica of picturesque description — all of these gesture toward a sexual climate that women could enjoy and that in part encouraged erotic fantasy.